Quotes About Progress

As Democrats, we believe in fairness and opportunity.

I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build.

You fake something until you're good at it.

There are a lot of people that never thought I was going to be the guy that I am now. Now when I see them, it's fun to see how people are. I don't think they're being fake. I think now they just see me from a different eye.

We have never said that we're perfect. We've said that we seek that. But we sometimes fall short.

American sci-fi has fallen into the doldrums in part because of the anti-science sentiment that's so prevalent in our culture lately.

Life is about falling down, getting up, and moving ahead.

In the years between 'Afterlight' and 'Legacy,' we see a Zu who has watched all of her older friends head out into the world to do meaningful work while she's made to wait and hang back because of her age. It reinforces a feeling in her that she's falling further and further behind and won't ever catch up to them.

I feel like I'm constantly falling behind. I feel like every day I'm out of the office I'm falling behind.

Your life isn't about doing one perfect 'thing' and then falling down dead. It's more like going to church or writing a book. You do it over and over, always trying to be a little bit better. Then you die.

The fact that Australia is falling so far behind on something so simple as equal love and equal rights for equal love is disgusting, it's embarrassing.

I work on myself all the time, and I'm constantly trying to learn and falling on my face all the time.

The world is moving, and a company that contents itself with present accomplishments soon falls behind.

If you get the product and technology right, then the rest usually falls into place.

I'm personally in a different stage of my career than I was at the beginning. I was young and tried to run a lot and fight for things. Now it falls naturally. That's something you get with experience.

New York... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you.

When you think about how everything else works in the digital age and the way that money does, money really falls short.

If I keep on winning and keep putting the work in, then everything else falls into place.

Revolutions are all based on the false idea that humans and their nature can be changed.

The t-shirts that declare 'Girls Rule the World' offer an empirical falsehood, but at least the aspiration is there.

I think fame comes from actually doing something big with your career.

There is no schooling for fame and success. You learn as you walk.

Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.

My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because of the growth that they have gone through.